For some of you who don't know
what the South Chilcotins mountain biking experience is all about read about
Lee's Chilcotin
Wanderings:

I'll be brief. On
our second day it rained a lot and showed us why Sharon always jokes that
Chilcotin means "Wet Feet". We scrubbed our plans to do alpine traverses.
While the rest of the group hiked around camp Rob, Monte, Iori and I went
up Little Graveyard, down Elbow and then back to Graveyard Camp. The beauty
of this setup is coming back to a toasty fire and lots of good food - very
necessary for drying out soaked gear. We
covered about 26kms and climbed 1100m today.

Iori and
Monte heading up Graveyard Creek towards a very gray looking alpine.

Pushing
up to Elbow Pass - Rob leads the way

Elbow Pass
had high moisture content and I was grateful for goretex socks

Iori heads
down Elbow Pass to Big Creek

Monte descending
Elbow Pass heading W

Inevitability
of wet feet at Big Creek

... and
once you're wet, you can't get much wetter

People were
kind and left me seconds and thirds and fourths of pecan pie and barbequed chicken

A raging
fire dries all

Bikes and
horses all love the warmth

Warren taking
care of shoeing duties during a camp day

Tarps kept
the kitchen and food area dry. SLWA has this down to a science